Man arrested for cocaine possession

Published 10:08 am, Sunday, December 14, 2014

Midland police charged a 19-year-old Midlander with possession of cocaine after finding multiple grams of cocaine on his body on Dec. 7, according to court documents.

Guillermo Borunda Jr. was charged with a second-degree felony for possession of a controlled substance between 4 grams and 200 grams.

Officers, according to documents, responded to a disturbance call in the 1600 block of West Washington Avenue at midnight on Dec. 7. Upon arriving they made contact with one of the people involved in the disturbance, Borunda, standing outside next to a pickup. They contacted the other party to the disturbance, who was in a home. Officers said the other man was heavily intoxicated and claimed that Borunda had assaulted him. The man also claimed that there was cocaine in Borunda’s truck.

An officer then walked up to Borunda to get his side of the story, according to documents. Borunda claimed that he had tried to break a fight between the man and a woman. The officer then asked Borunda if the truck was his, and Borunda allegedly responded that the truck was his father’s but he was driving it. When asked if there was anything illegal in the truck, Borunda allegedly said that there was not. Borunda allegedly consented to a search of the vehicle, and the officer asked the occupants of the vehicle to get out and sit on the curb.

Upon a search of the truck, the officer allegedly found a black digital scale and multiple small plastic baggies, according to court documents. He also allegedly found a half broken Xanax bar pill on the drivers side floorboard. Another officer allegedly found a folded up dollar bill in the backseat pocket of the driver’s side seat that contained a powdery white substance. The white substance allegedly tested positive for cocaine when tested with a NIK swab.

All of the occupants were then placed into handcuffs by the officers. The officers allegedly advised Borunda that he was under arrest for possession of a controlled substance in penalty group one (cocaine), and he allegedly did not argue.

When the officer was taking Borunda to his vehicle he allegedly asked him if he had anything else illegal on him, to which Borunda allegedly said “yes.” When asked where, Borunda allegedly told the officer that it was in his crotch area. The officer, according to documents, allegedly allowed Borunda to retrieve the illegal object from his crotch, which was allegedly a pill bottle with a torn label containing a plastic bag. The officer alleged that the bag contained a white clumpy substance that appeared to be cocaine. Borunda allegedly stated that the bag contained 7 grams of cocaine. Upon returning to the Midland County Detention Center, the officer alleged that the substance in the pill bottle weighed 8.6 grams and the substance in the dollar bill was 0.5 grams.

If convicted of the second-degree felony, Borunda faces up to 20 years in prison.